Lumpi's Raw food diary

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Lumpi1

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Hi People,

I'm very motivated to do a complete raw food diet. I have about 17kgs to lose. So here goes...

Tomorrow is officially day one... seeing as i binged today. I took a fat blocker though. Actually I took four. Two sets of two. Anyhow...

From now on i'm going to record everything I eat here. I hope I'll get some words of encouragement.

Thanks,
Lump

Today's food log:
1 protein shake (quarter strength)
500ml Buttermilk + peach ice cream
100g Lindt slab
1 bag marshmallow mice
80g Chocolate
2 hamburger patties
1 burger bun
1/4 watermelon
10 dates
1/2 cup almonds
 
I was just gonna say - how does a hamburger count as raw food, I like my burgers rare.. but ... heh....

Encouragement you shall get here... good luck with your raw food diet... I can't wait to read more about it... and hear how you like it...
 
interesting diet. That much sugar would have the reverse affect on me... It would make my appetite go through the roof. The raw burger aint bad as long as its seasoned. dont forget to call me on sushi night........
 
Hi People,

Just to clear up the confusion: Yesterday I binged... as seen above in food log... I was not yet on the diet... I started today officially. Thanks for the replies!! :D

Anyhow... my report for today...

I woke up starving!!!! Despite the massive amount of food yesterday.

Officially soya and rice milk are not raw foods... but i've included it anyhow with the protein powder cos it tastes like ack! with water. I'll see how the first week's loss goes and then maybe remove it. But I don't want to get all finicky about everything.... i want to make this a livable diet... but i'll try to stay raw for a complete month.

I didn't weigh this morning... which was hard not to do. I'm going to weigh on Monday morning.

I'm cycling to work soon and it's quite a long trip in this heat... it's fun though! Especially with the World Cup and all the fans and action on the streets on the way there. I hope I don't binge on the way or something. Anyhow... I'm getting exercise that way today. It's about 13 km one way, so a total of 26 km. I cycled this morning too, but only about 5km both ways. I'm not going to gym today.

Ok, food log so far:

Breakfast:
1.5 cups soya/rice milk with 3 tsp protein powder
big cup of coffee

Lunch:
2/3 slices watermelon
6 dates
1 almond bar (It's almonds stuck together with honey)
1 cup choc soya milk with 3 tsp protein powder
 
I LOVE raw food! (I love cooked food, too....) I'll be watching your progress with interest.

You say, "I woke up starving!!!! Despite the massive amount of food yesterday." Well, that's because there were NO complex carbs in your diet yesterday. You ate lots of sugars and fats; as a result, your blood glucose went sharply up and then crashed, so you woke up starving. I don't see any complex carbs in your food plan yet today, either. Especially with as much sugar as you are eating, you may find life goes more easily if you include some complex carbs (yes, natural sugars like watermelon, dates and honey have the same effect as sugar--or close enough), I don't really know HOW to include CC in a raw diet unless you chew wheat berries, but I'm quite sure there's a way.

Good luck, and keep posting!
 
Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the advice, Sonnet. I guess the nuts are complex carbs.

Anyhow... Last night for Supper:

1 (fresh) banana protein shake
about a pound of cherries
nut bar
peach
a few cashews
Watermelon (about a 1/4)

Well... that sounds like a load when it's written down! I wasn't hungry throughout the day but i think i should slow down on the nuts.

Food log so far:
Breakfast:
1 blended banana soy/rice milk pro shake
1 coffee

I know the coffee is crap cos it adds to my cellulite, but what the heck... I'll go easy on myself. I didn't weigh again this morning, but examined myself carefully in the mirror. My skin looks firmer than it used to, since i've been body brushing instead of using soap. It really does change the distribution of fat or something... i don't know... i'm supposed to know this stuff seeing as i'm studying to be a nutritional consultant. I started in April, by correspondence back home in South Africa. Anyway, Re: bodybrushing... it's really done wonders for my dry skin and i feel cleaner. Not like when you get out of the shower all slimey from shower gel (And I rinsed myself for a long time!)

Can a person rinse themselves? I mean, vocabularily speaking? It gives me the image of me in the rinse cycle in the washing machine.

A little more about me: I'm living in Germany... everything seemed very quiet last night during the football game. I guess Italy won. Oh well...

I earn money as an English teacher here. I don't work much... just enough to pay the rent and keep up my weed habit. It's unhealthy (both, too much work and weed!), but i see it as a cultural relaxation tool, just to intellectually justify my smoking of it. I figure, here in Germany, people have their beer with everything... causing all kinds of physical complications... and that's legal...
I should just move to Holland and I'll feel less guilty.

Whatever.

Today I get to cycle to my lesson (about 3 km) and then to my psychologist... yippeee! He's so sexy! (about 8km both ways). So total exercise ration: 11km. I may go to gym tonight, if BF wants to go. Which he probably will... I don't hate the gym... I actually enjoy it very much, especially when stoned. It's more effort then, but the people seem more funny and i'm entertained. I prefer outdoor though, like cycling or jogging, to the gym.

Oh, I forgot to say i'm living with my Boyfriend... except he's not a boy... He's like really old and goes to sleep really early... And I hate him and love him very much... We're very close... soulwise, i mean... but it's kind of annoying when people go to bed at like 10 pm or something. Especially when it's still light and i can't sleep! I wish they'd stop messing with this clock changing thing... It throws my sleep pattern out for months before it has to change again.

But actually since the begining of the year when i started really getting into the fruit thing, I've been more wide awake. I wake up fresh... especially when i was on a break from weed for a while. It's great actually... and I binge a lot less. Although one mini binge is usually a start of an entire week of digestive pain and emotional disaster.

Ok, i have to go to work...
see ya!
Lump
 
This is slowly starting to turn into "Lumpi's nut and protein shake diet!

Food log update:

Nut bar
Half a banana from the fruit guy on the corner.

He looks like the guy from Mario Brothers, so we started referring to him as "Mario". Everything's very quiet outside. No flags, no people... they must be all depressed from the game last night. This neighbourhood is composed of mostly Turkish people... it was so funny to see them the other day in the streets, celebrating Germany's win, with their headscarves and everything, but holding German flags above their heads. So much for Ausländerfeindlichkeit!

My lesson was cancelled and re-scheduled to Monday. Now i just have to go to the psych and then to a lesson in the afternoon. Wednesday is normally a binge risk day for me. I travel outside of Berlin in the afternoon and have to wait for a bus for half an hour in the final leg of my journey. I tend to binge during that half hour. It's surprising how many chocolates you I can eat in that space of time.

One time i managed it by taking a bag of cherries with me and i ate that until i thought i was going to pop.

Anyhow. I had another joint, even though my psych told me not to get stoned before i come see him. I'm fully functional though. I teach when i'm stoned and the lessons are really successful! I suppose that comes from having smoked for so long.

Alrighty then... I'll update later or tomorrow. I'm basically eating fruit all day, and i'll try to eat a salad. I hate salad. It's very boring. Just tastes like water. god! It's dull.

ok
cheee oww
 
You ask, "Can a person rinse themselves? I mean, vocabularily speaking? It gives me the image of me in the rinse cycle in the washing machine."

I rinse myself, you rinse yourself, he rinses himself, and, course, a person rinses himself. (I'm an English teacher, too :)
 
Lumpi's "raw food" diary

Hi People!!

Thanks for the replies and comments... where do you teach Sonnet, at a school?

Cool!!

Weed isn't raw unfortunately... it's heated when you light up. But oh well, I won't tell if you won't ;)

Anyhow... yesterday I had:

Another nut bar
Protein banana shake
Fruit salad
Dried fruit

Ok, the Dried fruit was just not good! Anyone who has eaten an entire bag of dried fruit can tell you why!

I've also been eating popsicles... the water and colouring kind.

Hence the " " in the title

later!
 
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Update Lumpi

Hi again.

Sorry I had to rush off when the doorbell rang. I have all my lessons at home today except for this evening which is about 2 minutes by bike from home. I don't think i'll get in any exercise today. Not natural exercise anyway. I should probably go to the gym.

Food update:
peach
coffee

I'm going to eat fruit and nuts basically today. I don't think i should post every cherry that i eat... that would be pretty boring, not to mention obsessive.

As for the protein shake: I have a soy protein powder with no flavouring or sweetners. I blend it up with a banana (for the added texture and sweetness) and soya/rice milk. I find it's a nice low fat protein source to balance out the source from high fat nuts. The soy/rice milk is not raw technically.

I really should try to eat some salad or other veggies. I don't like them so much. I suppose a juicer wouldn't be a bad investment. But that's work! cutting and cleaning afterwards... bleh! :p

Today's fruit selection includes: cherries, pears, peaches, watermelon.

I'm holding out on the dates, nut bars and nuts for a while cos i want a nice loss on Monday! I have to resist the marshmallow and gummy sweets on the weekend! I think strawberry popsicles are better. I think i'll make my own... I have the popsicle cup things, and i can blend fruit and freeze it. maybe add a dash of soya milk for that extra milky fruit sensation! mmm yummmaaayyyyyy

:cool:
 
Food update:

Fruit, nuts, dates

I just ate whenever... I didn't have a lunch time or something. I don't feel hungry now, it's 8pm... I guess I'll just have watermelon later... Today was so hot that it wasn't really possible to eat much. It was 37 degrees celcius!

It's storming now. It was great in the park when it just started. I didn't get any exercise in today but just cycled a bit when i went to pick up my weed.

I'm really fighting that urge to step on the scale! I want to know how much so far!! What if I don't lose anything!
 
Hi Everyone,

Last night i had watermelon.

Today I woke up feeling great! I had to poo a lot this morning. I know that's rather yuk to say in my public diary, but it was a remarkable amount!!

Well... so far:

rice milk with protein powder (3 tsp)

I'm just eating fruit all day I went to Mario's to buy watermelon, grapes, cherries, bananas. The salad pack is still in the fridge! I bought it a few days ago. Doesn't look too appetising. It's all kinda slimey and stuff.

I think i should stop buying salad and then leaving it to rot so i can have an excuse to throw it out. I should just not buy it in the first place because i don't like it.

I've noticed i'm more awake in the mornings. I didn't need coffee this morning. Or a joint. But i smoked a little one anyway. I'm limiting smokes to 6 per day and I'll slowly phase it out.

Last night i was thinking of my goals... where i want to be in a year... I'd like to be totally cured of living by the scale. I am going to weigh weekly for the moment, until i find my food self. Then I'll weigh fortnightly then monthly then eventually phase it out.

Issues of weight have taken up too much of my life! It's just bloody dull and boring now! I want to have fun and see myself as a human being, not a number on a scale. That number determines my day... but the past few days have been so liberating because i didn't weigh myself.

If i take a spiritual approach to what i ingest, I would see it as feeding my soul everytime i put something in my body. Like nourishing a god within me.

Can't go wrong with an attitude like that!

Go me!! :D
 
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Lumpi's update

I had a great day yesterday!

Food log:
fruit
nutbar
soyshake (banana)

I limited the nut bar and fruit shake to one each and fruit was in unlimited amounts. Fruits included: Litchis, cherries, grapes, nectarines

I didn't eat much yesterday though. I wasn't hungry. I went to the gym and did 1 hour of the eliptical/step type thing, the skiier... i don't know what it's called actually. I'll call it step, but it's with the arms going as well.

I burned 770 cals at the gym... I don't know how accurate that is though. I was very bored because my mp3 player didn't have any power left. So i was listening to the spinning class instead...

I also cycled around for shopping and stuff... about a total of 5km.

It was a bit weird having an active day as yesterday without much to eat. I was full of energy and i only had a craving when bf was eating an ovaltine chocolate bar. Oh, and when we passed the gözleme place on our bikes. It's a turkish specialty that's really really really yum! It's a pastry almost like chapati, but thinner and more buttery, that's filled with spinach (my fave) or meat or cheese or potato. The potato one isn't so great though, it's hard to swallow.

I'm looking forward to my weigh day tomorrow. I can't wait!! It's been really healthy to keep off the scale. I don't feel so tossed by the wave of daily weight changes. I think i'll weigh in 2 weeks after Monday. That's really brave seeing as this week has been great suspense for me. I feel as if i didn't know how to be, really... I mean without knowing my weight for the day. I wasn't sure whether to be depressed or something... Or to doubt wether I really feel ok in the clothes i chose for the day. Any scale addict will be able to identify, right?

Anyway...

hope to hear from others who have tried this type of diet.

:p
 
Well, I weighed. What a disappointment. only .03kg down

Foodlog for yesterday:
bowl of grapes and cherries
protein shake with choc soy
watermelon
banana choc soy protein shake
almonds
peaches
grapes

Exercise unit:
1 hour step (800cals)

Wish me luck for the week ahead! I'm trying my best not to cry so i think i'll just sign off for now.
 
now that i've composed myself, i can see that it's still a loss even though it's a small loss... It's probably fat loss instead of water loss. I'm just so used to crash diets and weighing everyday and laxatives and all that, so i can usually see a .5kg loss on a daily basis if i put my mind to really starving myself down to the goal weight.

I've changed my goal for this week to .5kg loss instead of the innitial 87-85 loss that i thought of first. It's more realistic. I'm also going to cut back on the nut bars and the chocolate soymilk. I'll limit nut consumption to a quarter cup, or about 20 nuts... but i'm not going to count them or something silly... just stating that for the record because I remember a diet where i counted apple bites!

The whole mission is that I want to get out of this freakin' diet mode altogether! I have a great book called "how much does your soul weigh"... I think i'll read a bit of that every day. It has exercises where you have to consider and analyse your behaviour regarding dieting. I'm also going to really work at my nutrition course to keep me focussed on health instead of weight loss.

So, food log for today will be posted tomorrow so that it's captured in this diary in a more structured way. I hope that i can say goodbye to this diary by the beginning of August... I'll just read and post with others occassionally. Just think, all this energy spent introspecting, weighing, worrying, counting and evaluating, could be spent encouraging others, or just generally doing something more useful than constantly obsessing.

I just need to do the right thing, walk the right way and i'll eventually be where i want to be. Has anyone heard of the Genesis 1:29 diet? well, that's it for me... it's sensible, not to mention logical, as scientifically proven. (find your own resources... he hehe, i'm too lazy to find back-up sources.

My diet is very much rastafarian i would say... And the principles of rastafarianism seem great... except i don't get the part about Selasie and all that... Why does religion have to be so fixated on having a person as an embodiment of a theory or belief. Even Taoism has it's saints and role models and what what...

The group i was involved in for over 2 years used to say that i'm my own master... but as it turned out, the guru was the master after all, with "donations" to boot.

Yeah whatever...:rolleyes:

But basically, there's always an underlying truth in all of these religions, new and old. It's hard to put in words... but it's possible to feel it when i'm living well and nourishing myself properly... basically respecting and enjoying...
 
Update

Well... yesterday was ok...

Foodlog for yesterday:
protein shake + bananas
coffee
tea
bowl of grapes and cherries
peaches
watermelon
8 dates

1 glass choc soy milk
nut bar

The chocolate soy milk and the nut bar were probably not so necessary.

I'm proud of myself for not resorting to a binge yesterday because i was disappointed that i lost less than i had imagined.
Besides, I took the starting weight from Monday morning 2 weeks ago, and I binged that day, and when i weighed in the evening, i was up to 89.5kg! How is it possible for someone to pick up 2.2kgs in one day?? :eek:
So anyway, technically, i weighed 88.5 on the next day, the day that i started my diet. That means that i actually lost 1.5kgs, which is more than i innitially wanted to lose!

Anyhow... now that i've thoroughly confused myself with the above paragraph... I have to admit that i'm totally bored with recording all my food... it's the one thing about me that has kept me from a dangerous level of eating disorder : I get bored easily. Although there was one time when i ate smarties (only smarties) for about 3 weeks... Hard to get bored of smarties! I lost about 7kgs in that time.

So, here's a note about the foodlog... I don't limit fruit when i eat it, except things like bananas and dates and nuts. I'm limiting the soya protein shake to once or twice a day, with one serving to be exchanged with a nut bar (occassional) or raw nuts. I'm also limiting the use of the chocolate soya milk because it's got processed sugar and colour and crap. Not to mention it being "vitamin enriched".
Anyway, basically, once a day (full powder serving) of the protein powder. When i've reached my goal weight i'll phase it out and increase nuts.

So I'll just record the basics and then any "excesses".

I feel great though... BF commented on my flat stomach :D . My jeans are not smothering my thighs anymore. I guess eating fruit clears up my lumpi thighs... there are some theories that it's detoxification, that the cellulite stores the toxins and they are released during a fast or a fruit diet. I find when i don't drink coffee that my thighs start to look smother after a few weeks.

Besides, coffee and tea are not considered raw. Hey, i'd better start making this a real raw food diet before someone complains that the diary is misnamed.
 
May have already reached next week's goal

I did a bad thing :D I weighed myself this morning... fortunately, the scale read 86.3kgs! so i didn't get all suicidal and shit. BF is going to hide the scale till Monday though.

Yesterday's food log:

Fruit: nectarines, cherries, watermelon, banana
2 shakes
1 glass soy milk

Exercise units: 5km cycling

Not bad! I'm getting the hang of it.
I've slowed the joint consumption considerably! I'm really proud of myself. I'm basically just smoking enough to keep the edge off. It's becoming expensive anyhow.

I've been reading others' diaries and other threads generally... they're all so inspiring, but i haven't posted anything yet. I feel kinda new here and people all seem to know each other. It's definately encouraging to lose weight this way. Besides, some of these diaries are more valuable than any weight loss book because you see real results.

Anyway... I was reading someone else's raw food diary on another site and they described some of the symptoms i've been experiencing... like excessive pooping and my skin being turned into a pimple factory. My skin is clearing up slowly though... but in the first few days it was :confused:

I have to find an opportunity to include veggies in this diet... I really don't like them... but like, you're supposed to eat them and all that, so i guess i have to... I've thought of buying a smoothie machine so i can make veg smoothies... of course i'd mix it with something like oranges or apples or something... i guess...

but the thought of using dope money for a smoothie machine really breaks me up... i guess it really is time to slow down. :p

laters!
 
yesterday's food log

Hi,

Yesterday was great!

Food log:
fruit: nectarines, grapes, peaches
1 protein shake
1 sesame bar


That's it... I was going to eat more when i got home last night, but i wasn't hungry. Normally my binge day is Wednesday and I managed to get through that. So i think i have broken that cycle...

There was a reply to this diary which i read last night but can't find for some reason... it was regarding a restriction of meat in this diet. I don't miss meat... I think a few weeks of the atkins diet put me off meat. I wish for a döner now and then... which i'll eat after this month if and when the desire is there. It's a nice thing to eat actually... it's bread with grilled meat shavings and salad... not as bad as a macD or a pizza, as far as fast food goes, i mean.

I haven't felt hungry since yesterday around 3pm. So i haven't eaten yet. It's almost midday. I don't feel tired or weak or anything like i did on the atkins thing. I'm wearing my pants that didn't fit last week and my belly has really flattened out. I can see my stomach muscles on the sides, framed by the bone structure, and I have a real navel :eek: not a sad mouth navel :( .
The best part about this diet though, is that i wake up awake (even with weed consumption!), and I don't have that slimey feeling in my mouth... really gross, i know... but it's true.

Anyhow... I hope you are all doing well in your progress!!

bis denne!
 
Update Thursday

Yesterday I eventually got my appetite back!

Food log:
Watermelon, nectarines, cherries, banana
2 nut bars

looks like a little but when i say watermelon, i mean WATERMELON. Like a quarter in one sitting.

We cycled to a student out in the north east of Berlin, about 26km in total. BF went to gym as well. I feel so lazy compared to him. But i think i'm doing enough exercise.

I didn't eat anything until about 2pm yesterday. I snuck a peek at the scale too :D . BF has taped the display up and painted glue over the tape so i don't weigh myself. But i just peeled the tape back. :p

I should take this more seriously though, i really want to get out of the weighing thing... maybe i'll do a big thing after my weigh in on Monday and just throw it out.

We'll see...

I don't have any cravings yet... I had a craving briefly yesterday, but i can't remember what it was for. Anyhow... I was mostly thirsty with all the cycling in the heat. It was really great in the evening though... we stopped off at the river and watched the sky change colour while we smoked a joint. Was really spectacky.

Tomorrow the love parade is on!! woo hooo! I'm going to meet some people from a german message board today. That should be interesting. They are meeting for a picnic. Weather ain't so good for it though...

bye then... have fun and all that...
 
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